Judge — March 5, 1921 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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| Digest of Deven by Wears Patan He Got the Spirit—There’s a subur c whose ’s principal delight is in keeping it spicand span, After din ner he « moking on the front porch, The guest, after lighting his cigar, threw the burned match to the ground “Oh, | wouldn't do that, George,”’ said the host ban hoi 1 guest were “Why not?” asked the guest, sur- prised “It spoils the appearance of a place,” was the answer, It’s just those little things th Phe guest fora minute, T ki place look bad.” moked his cigar in silence without a word, he hair, walked down to the He returned in a host asked have you been, got up from hii road and d short while. 2 “Why Oh, I just went wn to spit in the river,” said George A Wrong-Headed Ambition—Sena tor Hiram Johnson said in an after-dinner speech “The radical movements of the day t one good thing. boys that there are have achieved at le ‘They have taught ¢ ler ambitions than the one to become a million “When I was a boy the millionaire ambition was drilled into all of us, but today such an ambition seems as wrong: headed as Cornelius Husk. “A traveler stopped his auto in front of old Corn Husk’s place and ** How far is it to Quag, stranger?” “Corn teok his pipe out of his mouth. “*Asked anybody else that there uestion?” he inquired Yes: I asked the blacksmith down the road.’ the World’s Humor Nothing Serious—* Forty young fel lows in love with her without arousing y responsive emotio A vampire?” “Their school-teacher.” — Lowisvil Courier-Journal. Decide Now Ethel,” he whispered. “will you marry me?” “LT don’t know, Charlie,” she replicd coyly. “Well, when you find out,” he said, rising, “send me word, will you? I shall be at Mabel Hicks’s until ten o'clock. If 1 don't hear from you by then I am going to ask her.” She hurried up.— Houston Post. Mr. Durano ts «TO RECEIVE MIM_A POLITE HINT AW, LEAVE IT TO ME, MA‘AM I kxow now To port, Twas a GUARD IN THE SUBWAY DURING THE WAR.—Le Rire (Par Changed His Mind—Jack—Then “‘Huh! Ye asked Jinks Hobson, did you didn’t ask for her hand? ye? Wall, how fur did Jinks say it Tom—No; when I went to interview as?” her father he was busy with the furnace. “He said it was two miles.’ He called out to me to come down and ““Five miles is the correct figger, after watching his struggles for half an stranger.’ hour and hearing what he said about “With a disappointed oath the coal, I decided not to get married. n. Tohisaston- Boston Transcript stranger pushed on aga ishment he reached Quag in a few min utes. Instead of being five miles away, In Good ‘Grace is in luck.”” it was hardly a mile “How so?” “The next week he happened on Corn “Two fellows are calling on her. One Husk a second time is a florist and the other owns a cg “Look here,’ he ‘Why did you store.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. tell me it was five miles from your place to Quag? It’s only about a mile.’ Exchanging Notes—“ That new clerk inks Hobson told ye it was two — of yours is a studious fellow. He's going miles, didn’t he?’ said Corn calmly, to make good.” ‘Wall, jinks thinks he’s the “Why do you think so?” asked Mr, liar round these parts. I told ye it was Dubwaite. five miles, stranger, so’s to show the “He frequently steps over to consult gol-durn cuss he’s got a hard man to _ the dictionary.” beat, by crimus, when he tries to git ‘es, he and our stenographer use it the best of Corny Husk.’""—Detroit Free as —Birmingham Age- Press. 1s comicbooks.com